- "If the will of the galaxy were truly so anti-Empire, there's no way so much of the Imperial fleet could have escaped. No way they wouldn't have been hunted down no matter where they tried to hide. There are still friends of the Empire out there."
- ―Unidentified Centrist senator
In 28 ABY, a senator that belonged to the Centrist faction, a political party within the Galactic Senate of the New Republic that advocated for the implementation of stronger government and military elements, attended a small celebration hosted by Ransolm Casterfo of Riosa to show off his newly-purchased Royal Guard helmet to a congregation of thirty or so Centrists invited for their reputations of being enthusiastic collectors of Imperial artifacts. Though their comments did not reach the same openly wistful nostalgia for the submission and obedience enforced by Galactic Empire that some, like Senator Fatil and Lady Carise Sindian's chief of staff spoke of, this individual openly questioned the widespread opposition the Empire had supposedly received when the New Republic had been founded from the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The senator believed that had the galaxy been so strongly against the Galactic Empire, than the Imperial Navy could have never seen so much of its forces escape captivity following the Battle of Jakku and signing of the Galactic Concordance, which this individual took as a sign that even after all these years, individuals continued to remain faithful to the memory of the Empire.[1]
Behind the scenes
This senator appeared in the 2016 novel Bloodline, written by Claudia Gray.[1]